Saturday, February 6, 2010

Taking suggestions on three things

-We'll do our monthly 2012 poll next week- who should we test as the 4th Republican alongside Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and Sarah Palin? We'll consider anyone except Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, and David Petraeus who we looked at on our last three polls. We'll take nominations and put it to a vote.

-Any good ideas for national question topics? The poll we did on what tv news outlets people trusted last month certainly generated some buzz...we just aim to be interesting and do stuff there aren't already a million polls out there on.

-And it's North Carolina time...I hate to be a tabloid pollster but we definitely have to look at John Edwards and see if he's managed to drop even further from a month ago. What else besides the standard things we survey every month should we take a look at this time around?

Would be interesting a poll for North Carolina finding the more popular democrats in way of last polls for Nevada and Arkansas. Including John Edwards, Mike Easley, Erskine Bowles, Berverly Perdue, Roy Cooper, Elaine Marshall, Mike McIntire and/or Heath Shuler.

last time Glenn Beck finished 2nd to Petraeus in voting and would be better cause he should have higher name recognition. This is also going to generate buzz from the media. I'd wonder who would come out on top

All of the usual applies:The primary is one of the first (its in May I think, so pretty quick compared to summer states)Is Cunningham making an edge against Marshall ?How is Lewis doing with the Congressional endorsement ?

Ask how many people support a cap and trade bill.Ask how many people think Kay Hagan is a liberal/moderate/conservative.Ask how many people identify themselves as being part of the "tea party" (you can do this question for national as well)Ask how many people are celebrating Black History Month or know what it is.Ask how many people think Nancy Pelosi or Barack Obama are criminals.

I agree with the above comment that you should poll some alternatives to Marshall. Is Cooper still close? How is Mike Easley and Heath Shuler doing?

"Possible national poll question: If forced to choose, would you raise taxes and cut the deficit or lower taxes and not cut the deficit?Possible national poll question: If forced to choose, would you raise taxes and cut the deficit or lower taxes and not cut the deficit?"

2012: Obama v Generic Republican with Hispanics, women, young voters, college-ed, independents. Without Bush (or a Republican Congress) to use as a boogyman and with a harsh economy, just how soft is Obama's support with key groups of the Democratic coalition? And how does the sagging support undermine the case for demographics favoring the Democrats?

As for a fourth Republican, try testing out Lou Dobbs. Dobbs has been fueling suspicion about a Presidential run, and while most assume it would be as an Independent, it wouldn't be that crazy to go ahead and test him as a Republican.

Also for Edwards, it might be good to test his ex-aide Andrew Young's popularity. Young's been trying to milk this story as a victim to the media, are people buying it?

* Brown V. Obama * Ask something like who do you trust more to represent you in congress, someone who has held office or someone coming from the outside with no Political background * Do all the Edwards questions you want, but check Heath Shuler's numbers for re-elect.